Facebook removes 8.7 mn child abuse images in 3 months

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San Francisco: Facebook has said its Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies have helped remove 8.7 million pieces of child sexual images from its platform in the past three months.

Almost of these images (99 per cent) were removed before anyone reported them, Facebook said on Wednesday.

Facebook's "Community Standards" ban child exploitation and to avoid the potential for abuse, it takes action on nonsexual content as well, like seemingly benign photos of children in the bath.

"We also remove accounts that promote this type of content," Facebook's Global Head of Safety Antigone Davis said in a statement.

It also extensively uses technology to identify child exploitative content on its platform and also to find accounts that engage in potentially inappropriate interactions with children on Facebook so that it can remove them and prevent additional harm.

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